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STEAM | December II 2014 - A thread for people who don't like sale side posters.

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Asgaro

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RionaaM said:
I started and finished Hateoful Boyfriend today. It's... weird. And not good. But also not as bad as I thought it'd be. It's bizarre. And silly. And it can also be a bit deep when it wants to, which is to say, almost never.

To be fair, this is much less "pigeon dating sim" than I imagined, so I gotta give credit to the game because it managed to surpass my negative expectations. It still was creepy, but less than I had guessed when first hearing of it.


Also, I think I found my new favorite response for tipping threads:
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I tip like this:

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Turfster

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Phawx said:
I sent steam keys to people and then they went offline and then lost the key in chat.

Really wish steam chat kept history
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It sort of does (or did) on the Android client, and when opening a chat with someone, it gives the last few lines of the last conversation.

abracadaver said:
Is deponia complete journey a collection of all the deponia games or another game?
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It's a single game that stitched all the others together.
 
Tizoc

Tizoc

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Turfster said:
Conquest Collection? 30$ at 50% off
Don't know how "complete" it is tho, since art of war isn't part of it I don't think.
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Thanks.
Man I'm so bummed, if only Russian Trading wasn't restricted I would've gotten all the DLC for under $10 =(
 
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Hero Prinny

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Hey guys! I got my new power supply yesterday and I removed my old one and did the new one. I gotta admit, I don't think I did that bad of a job for my second go(first time I did it was for my bro and that shit came out like doodoo and took forever imo). What do you guys think? I tied up all the extra wires and put them in that empty enclosed space on the bottom left if you couldn't tell what that was(although in the IMG its before I actually used that black thingie to tie em, I just shoved them there)
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My new graphics card should be here later today. LEZGOOOOOOO :D
 
Phawx

Phawx

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Hero Prinny said:
Hey guys! I got my new power supply yesterday and I removed my old one and did the new one. I gotta admit, I don't think I did that bad of a job for my second go(first time I did it was for my bro and that shit came out like doodoo and took forever imo). What do you guys think? I tied up all the extra wires and put them in that empty enclosed space on the bottom left if you couldn't tell what that was(although in the IMG its before I actually used that black thingie to tie em, I just shoved them there)



My new graphics card should be here later today. LEZGOOOOOOO :D
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Can you flip your HDD around? So all of the cables can be underneath? Unless you don't care about visuals.
 
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The_Super_Inframan

"the journey to a thousand games ends with bad rats. ~Lao Tzu" ~Gabe Newell
Why are you guys all hating on Deponia, the games aren't bad IMO.

Maybe something is lost in translation?
 
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drizzle

Axel Hertz
Phawx said:
Can you flip your HDD around? So all of the cables can be underneath? Unless you don't care about visuals.
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Yeah, HDD should be flipped the other way and all cables should go behind the motherboard (through the hole on the bottom) and back around to the front.

That way, you hide the cables and allows for better airflow.

I do it on my case, because it has enough space behind the mobo to house cables. I don't do on my ohter case, because it doesn't.
 
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dave is ok

aztek is ok
Grain of salt, but someone claims to have interviewed at Valve for a support position on reddit and posted this:

Brief synopsis of their issues as someone who interviewed for, and was going to be offered, a Support Position there:

Valve currently has ~70 people that handle support tickets as their primary job function. They all sit in a semi-small area that was horribly lit while I was there. Everyone had headphones on and just typed away. Didn't strike me as a very welcoming environment (the rest of the floors sure as hell were though, my oh my). It was a small duration of time I was in that area, so that might not be the norm.

I believe the backlog I was quoted was 10,000 tickets on any given day. My interviewers indicated they could knock out around 1,000 on a good day. Numbers are kinda fuzzy at the moment.

They have one hell of a time with a lot of tickets where people can't provide any information with regards to ownership on accounts, and it's even more difficult in areas where credit cards aren't widely used and passed over for non-traceable cards (Russia).

Everyone in the group has some sort of specialty, whether that's payment and fraud, VAC, etc. (P.S. Valve also believes their VAC system is infallible, and I'm inclined to believe for the most part that when you're VAC banned it's because you did something you shouldn't have).

I spent a whole day interviewing and answering many questions that had nothing to do with my experience (save questions on how to turn things around, but I'm not going to show them my entire hand during the interview; gotta save something for on-the-job, right?). Something I heard repeated multiple times was, "Valve support is failing." Believe me, they know it's happening.

My experience? I've been leading a customer support/technical support team for 4 years, with 8 years of Technical Support experience and a BSEE under my belt. My group consistently ranks highest in satisfaction in our company, which is something for a support group. We have very low turnover, and a great family-like atmosphere. We work on a 9/80 schedule and have lots of flexibility.

They told me even before I left the room that they were going to make me an offer. I was ecstatic to get in there and help fix the problems that are holding them back. I was thinking grand ideas of incentive and motivation (up to and possibly including floating the idea for conversion of the company to a partial ESOP). I was told I would hear back in a few days.

Fast-forward 2 weeks. I finally hear from their HR person. When she asked for my salary, I happily complied. I live in a relatively small town in a crazy low-cost area of the US. My take-home pay is nothing near what I could even max out on in my area for the same skills. She thanked me and said she would call back soon.

A week later I receive a call that they are withdrawing the offer "Because it wouldn't make sense for my wife and I to move out there." and that it would "Be a risk." She couldn't give me any specifics or even throw an number out there. That tells me one of two possible things:

1) They had reservations during the interview process and decided they couldn't bring me on a little too late. Annoying, but understandable.

2) They couldn't pay enough to keep me there.

SO. You have three problems right now at Valve; lack of people, lack of pay, and lack of lasting incentive to deplete the backlog (I'm throwing short-term incentives such as cash bonuses right out the window because they DON'T motivate people over the long-term).

Would I go there if they made me another offer? Absolutely. In a heartbeat. The company as a whole seems super exciting and the people there are friendly and passionate about what they do. But you bet your ass I'd be pushing for some huge changes in how things are done in that cramped support room.

TL;DR: Valve support is kind of a mess and short of hiring a mess of well-paid people and people with good experience in leading these positions, they'll never fix it.

Edit: I realize some of this sounds like complaining. I'm still a little sore that they told me they'd make me an offer and withdrew it. My experience up to that point was fantastic. Wouldn't trade it for the world. My interviewers were all normal guys and were awesome to talk to.
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Ban Puncher

Ban Puncher

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Hero Prinny said:
Hey guys! I got my new power supply yesterday and I removed my old one and did the new one. I gotta admit, I don't think I did that bad of a job for my second go(first time I did it was for my bro and that shit came out like doodoo and took forever imo). What do you guys think? I tied up all the extra wires and put them in that empty enclosed space on the bottom left if you couldn't tell what that was(although in the IMG its before I actually used that black thingie to tie em, I just shoved them there)



My new graphics card should be here later today. LEZGOOOOOOO :D
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Gah, your case is full of ugly power snakes!

Feed them all into the grommets behind the mobo and hide yo shit for better airflow.
 
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Hero Prinny

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Phawx said:
Can you flip your HDD around? So all of the cables can be underneath? Unless you don't care about visuals.
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Umm Idk I'll try later when I open it up again to replace the graphics card, but tbh it don't bother me much, I just wanted to check if maybe something was in danger like x cord is to close to y, it might damage x.
Ruruja said:
Same as mine! I think that means we're brothers now.
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Ily bro <3
 
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Hero Prinny

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Man Puncher said:
Gah, your case is full of ugly power snakes!

Feed them all into the grommets behind the mobo and hide yo shit for better airflow.
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bu bu they're all tied up already! and some of those parts are a bitch to remove and put back(I'm looking at the motherboard one, I had reopen my case cause it wasn't pushed in all the way, damn thing looked like i was gonna snap the motherboard if i pushed in any harder.)
 
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tebunker

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So I picked up Divinity II on the sale. Never played it before, and wow I am pretty impressed so far. It's not the greatest and some stuff needs tweaking but for a 5 year old game it looks and run really well on my PC and I really like what I have played so far.

Only about 4 hours in so hopefully it doesn't peter out, but glad I went that route and even though they are different games it has made me more interested in original sin.
 
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darkchewie

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Gosh, I woke up this morning to find someone tried to reset my Steam password last night. Got the Steam support email to input the verification code. I was still logged in on my PC, and nothing seems out of place or missing.

How worried should I be? :(
 
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dex3108

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Hero Prinny said:
Hey guys! I got my new power supply yesterday and I removed my old one and did the new one. I gotta admit, I don't think I did that bad of a job for my second go(first time I did it was for my bro and that shit came out like doodoo and took forever imo). What do you guys think? I tied up all the extra wires and put them in that empty enclosed space on the bottom left if you couldn't tell what that was(although in the IMG its before I actually used that black thingie to tie em, I just shoved them there)



My new graphics card should be here later today. LEZGOOOOOOO :D
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Next time use evry opening on your case to hide cables :D Mine looks like this

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milena87

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MMBosstones86 said:
I usually respect other peoples opinions about things.

And then I read that DA2 > Origins thread.

No. Just no.
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You know, I'm not sure I can quite say that I enjoyed DA2 more than DAO, but I did like it a lot. Objectively, yeah, DA2 is inferior to DAO in most ways, but I appreciated some of the changes and I liked the more personal story.

I played through DA2 4 times, and I did the same with DAO. I like them both for different things. And I prefer them both to DAI.
 
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NingenJanai

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milena87 said:
You know, I'm not sure I can quite say that I enjoyed DA2 more than DAO, but I did like it a lot. Objectively, yeah, DA2 is inferior to DAO in most ways, but I appreciated some of the changes and I liked the more personal story.

I played through DA2 4 times, and I did the same with DAO. I like them both for different things. And I prefer them both to DAI.
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DAI is worse than DA2? I thought it was well regarded
 
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